, 1887-03-17
PUBLIC BuILDINGs.


the appropriation for n public build
ing at Lafayette Ind, is evidently
susceptible of another explanation
than that which he designed to give.
Because some citizens Of the town
have fitted ups building for the post
office and have rented it to the gov
ernment for a good round sum, Mr..
Cleveland thinks 1t would be wrong
to interfere with this lease by put
ting up a building, regardless OF the
fact that the accommodations are
now limited, that the business Of the
office Is steadily growing, and that
by the time the proposed structure
reached completion the lease would
have expired. The president evil
IDENTIFY has method in his madness
and vetOes with IA purpose which is
not nude known to the public. Up
TO this time he has had sixteen Lub-
lie building bills before him. OF
these he has approved eight, all
from the south, and vetoed eight, all
from the north but one. This one
provided for an Ss0,OOO building at
Asheville, n. c., n town with popu-
lation Of 5000, and postoffice in
come OF something over $4,000. On
what principle he acted in this case
Is not clear, since he had already APP
proved Il 100000 appropriation for
FL Paso, Texas, a place of not more
than three thousand inhabitants and
a postoffice bringing in about $1,000.
Among the bills approved during
the last session of congress was one
for $500, 600 for San Antonio, Texas,
population 20, 500; net income ofpost-
office, S7,383; for Jacksonville, Fla,
Sl5O,OOO, population 1850; postoffice
income s7,65O; for Savannah, Ga,
5000, 600, population 30, 700; postoffice
income, $40, 1856.
The following bills were vetoed:
Springfield, Mo-, population,
6522; pOstofficc income, S10,935.2S.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, 100000; popula-
tion, rs, ,113; postoffice income, net,
S13,23l. As; Sioux City, Iowa; $780,
900; population, 1856; postOffice in
come, net, S2O,3l6. .32; Dayton, Ohio,
S15O,0OO; population, 3S,67S; post
office income, net, S3S, ,344.41.
During the former session the fol-
lowing bills We're approved:
Huntsville, Ala, population,
1877; pOstoffice income, net, 1906. Al;
Augusta, Ga, population, q 1891;
postoffice income, net, $7a10.5O;
Owensboro, KY, $4,000; population,
623l; postOffice income, net S5S6S. Is;
Houston, Texas, S73,0O6, population,
10000; postoffice income, net, Sl2,-
7OS.O9.
Bills vetoed:
Lynn, Mass, population, $4,000;
postoffice income, net, S25,537. 40;
Portsmouth, Ohio, 100000; pOpula.
tiOn, 1921; postotfice income, ST.
455.41.
In some of his vetoes the presi-
dent dwells upon the fact that no =.
United States court is held i'm the
towns where it Is proposed to erect
the public buildings. This circum-
stance seems to have influenced his
action in regard to Dayton, Ohio,
and Lynn, Mass, but had no weight
when the desires of Augusta.
Georgia, Houston, Texas, and Owens.
borc, Kentucky, were considered.
These three places have no United |
States courts, but nevertheless they .
were granted liberal appropriations
for government buildings. 1t is
plain enough that it is his own in
terest which Mr.. Cleveland is con-
sulting rather than that OF the re-
spectlve communities. He grants
the appropriations to the towns in
Texas and Georgia and Alabama be-
cause he desires to strengthen his
influence in those eX-confederate
state. preliminary to another cam
paipn. He declines to.listen to the
of Ohio and Massachu-
,etts and Iowa, because he is well
ware that he cannot look to these
states for any aid toward securing a
This plan of trading
,pon his power and position is
worthy of cheap ward politician,
MT as Mr.. Cleveland's statesman
hin is the outgrOwth of precisely
hat form of politics, his course
n this matter is not to be won
erred at. II is, to be sure, IN
onsistent with hisllofty professions
+ high principle, ,sand fails to agree
nth the admirable system OF reform
,b,ch his mugwump admirers
r.. to believe guides his
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